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Advanced Energy in the Windy City – An Update from SVC TechCon 2024
六月 11, 2024
By Kyle Moore
Every year the Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) – a non-profit, international, professional organization primarily devoted to coating and surface finishing using vacuum processes – brings together industry professionals, researchers and academics for SVC TechCon, the world’s largest technical expo for vacuum coating.
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Dynamic Reverse Pulsing – What About the Anode?
十二月 04, 2023
By Gayatri Rane
A previous AE blog, Dynamic Reverse Pulsing – What About Duty Cycle?, discussed reactive sputter deposition of insulating thin films in large-area coaters, describing the benefits of using the Dynamic Reverse Pulse (DRP) power-delivery mode over the bipolar (BP) mode of dual magnetron sputtering. In DRP mode , dual targets are bipolar pulsed against an explicit anode and the duty cycle can be varied so that the polarity is positive on the target for a shorter time during pulsing. This allows clearing of charge build-up on the targets. In our studies, DRP mode showed increased deposition rate and reduced substrate temperature when compared to similar depositions with the BP mode.
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CT Imaging: Navigating the Complex Power Needs of Current and Next Generation CT Systems
十月 09, 2023
Computed Tomography (CT) is a computerized imaging technique used in radiology. A rapidly rotating X-ray beam and detector are used to generate cross-sectional images – so-called slices – that form the volumetric and very detailed internal image of the body.
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Modular for Medical: A Non-Custom Approach to Custom Healthcare Power
二月 08, 2022
By Dermot Flynn
From MRI and CT scanners to diagnostics, electrosurgery and medical lasers, power schemes for many medical applications are characterized by lower to medium production volumes, specialized requirements and compliance with rigorous environmental and safety standards.
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Optimized Power, Not More Power: Plasma Power for Next-Generation Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication
十二月 02, 2021
As integrated circuit (IC) designs become ever-more complex with each new architecture and technology node, so does the processing of the semiconductor wafers used to fabricate those ICs.
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Efficiency and Standardization Drive 48 V Data Center Power
十一月 04, 2021
By Harry Soin
Whether it’s the explosion in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), the pandemic-accelerated drive to online collaboration, our insatiable appetite for social media or the proliferation of information from the Internet of Things (IoT), one thing is certain – worldwide demand to process, store and share data is increasing exponentially.